Women in STEM in Higher Education

A model for bridging the gender gap in STEM in higher education institutions.- A Review of Irish National Strategy for Gender Equality in Higher Education 2010-2021.- Making and taking leadership in the promotion of gender desegregation in STEM.- Reflections on Selected Gender Equality in STEM Initiatives in an Irish University.- Balance4Better: "We Are HERe" more than a gender campaign.- Promoting the participation of women in STEM: A methodological view.- Women retention in STEM Higher Education: Systematic Mapping of Gender Issues.- Mentoring of female students in engineering as a way of caring.- Gender perspective in STEM disciplines in Spain universities.- Examples of good practices in Erasmus+ projects that integrate gender and STEM in Higher Education.

Francisco José García-Peñalvo is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain, with three six-year periods of research, one six-year period of transferring and innovation, and four five-year periods of recognized teaching. He received the Beatriz Galindo award for teaching excellence in 2019. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Research Group Recognized by the USAL GRIAL (research GRoup on InterAction and eLearning). He was Vice-Dean of Innovation and New Technologies of the Faculty of Sciences of the USAL between 2004 and 2007 and Vice-Rector of Technological Innovation of this University between 2007 and 2009. He is currently the Rector's Delegate for Virtual Teaching and the Coordinator of the Doctorate Programme in Education in the Knowledge Society at USAL. He has published more than 100 research papers in JCR-indexed journal.
Alicia García-Holgado received the degree in Computer Sciences (2011), a M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems (2013) and a Ph.D. (Cum Laude) (2018) from the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department and member of the GRIAL Research Group of the University of Salamanca since 2009, where she currently leads the research line "Social Responsibility and Inclusion". Her research is related to the development of technological ecosystems for knowledge and learning processes management in heterogeneous contexts, and the gender gap in the STEM areas. Noteworthy the organization and participation in a large number of international activities aimed at reducing the gender gap in STEM. She is currently part of the coordinating team in the W-STEM project and researcher in the CreaSTEAM project, both funded by the European Commission and focused on creating inclusive spaces in education and reducing the gender gap in STEM. She is a board member of the Women in Computing Committee of the Spanish Computing Scientific Society and